Rebel without a cause?

Conspiracy theories play no part in Oliver Stones World Trade Center. So, has this Hollywood rebel finally given up on the cause?

Oliver Stone seems wired, if not spaced. “Tension! Are you kidding? This is my first time on the red carpet. I never saw a red carpet like that before. This is official. I’ve only been in competition two or three times.” Stone has just arrived for lunch at the Eden Roc restaurant in the Hôtel du Cap, Antibes. The night before, with Charlie Sheen and Willem Dafoe, he had introduced a special Cannes festival screening of his 1986 film Platoon. He had also shown 25 minutes of his new 9/11 film, World Trade Center. But he doesn’t seem to remember anything about the event.

I ask him, for example, why he apologised for the new movie’s special effects “looking like Japanese sci-fi”. To me, they looked impressive.

“Did I say that? Is that right?” He was, apparently, overwhelmed by the red carpet and stuff. “I had to buy a bow